(13:16) I-10, V-6, D-4, H-5. We're not shown the master bedroom and the room at the end of the hall is too small to be it so I'm making a guess of its proximity. THE DOCTOR: How did he manage to do that. Fig. Basil Dearden, director of The Smallest Show on Earth, also was one of the directors showcased in the old horror classic Dead of Night. Moreover, Lloyd is the first Ally encountered by Jack in the Special World (Grady will follow). -Mr. Ullman jokes that he wouldn't want to enter the hedge maze unless he had an hour to figure out how to escape from it. 12) Hot Fuzz (2007) - Edgar Wright. But the individual pages in the film contain different layouts and mistakes. No, The Shining is not a true story. What appears to be a blue box showing Q-tips Cotton Balls stands on the first shelf of the bookcase beside the alabaster bull figurine, and could possibly be taken as a stand-in for a blue sky with clouds considering its placement above the horizon line. Though the eye does go to Bill as he enters, by the lines of the kitchen cabinetry and range crossfading into the shelving and ceiling, and the propulsion of the lines in the strong graphics I've just mentioned, the eye feels as though it is being pushed also to just between Stuart and Wendy as she fades out. Foreshadowing. (4:10 crossfade begins, full fade in by 4:12. Ullman and Watson Interview Jack, Shots 21 through 49 How a set informs the story in all its particulars. STUART: Jack is a (12:56) 42 The presence of The Catcher in the Rye at the table may belie Jack's later assertion that Wendy is a great fan of ghost stories and horror. DANNY: To my stomach. Shot 36. There is no guest area concourse back here, instead only service halls for employees. Now, in his mind, his mother deserved it just as Wendy and Danny deserve to be punished. WENDY: Yeah? Below, resting on the floor is a tray decorated with flowers all in autumnal brown tones, and the plates upon which they eat are decorated similarly. He describes it as dj vu, but more powerful, as if he knew what was around every corner. (You can watch it above. Keeping with the myth of Jacob, when Jacob awoke from his dream, the story goes that he thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. The large, bright red book in the foreground possibly complements and takes the place of Wendy's reading of The Catcher in the Rye with its red cover. He also cuts out the following escapade of Coyote on a revving motorcycle and its crash, Kubrick exiting with music heard during the next escapade in the cartoon when Wiley E. is pouring Acme bird seed out onto the road. View its location taken from Google street view. We had already observed he was wearing a red and blue and white raglan sleeved shirt decorated with stars around the armband, but while he was in the kitchen we were only able to see the number 4 above that band. . -Mr. Ullman tells Jack and Wendy that the hotel is rumored to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground, and that it suffered attacks from some local Native American tribes while it was being built in the early twentieth century. We assume Jack has made the trip up in the yellow VW but we didn't see him in it. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. Jim Barrie was, himself, a rather sinister figure in his attraction to boys. No way one would find this kind of workmanship in a 70s student/family apartment complex. There are radiant heaters in this section. Its unclear what exactly is going to happen to the family, but King ensures that readers continue through the story and find out. But, I have also read the shot was done in miniature because it was too expensive to film otherwise. We can go back even farther than the sound of the train to the film's opening and the curious activity around the the tunnel through which the VW passes as it travels up the mountainside, that tunnel bookended by cars that have pulled over to the side of the road, a white family station wagon preceding it and the two-tone color auto following. Pendereckis De Natura Sonoris no. 29 - Crossfade from Jack in Ullman's office to the Boulder bathroom. Why would Kubrick do this? He doesn't just cut it out, he jumps a few seconds into a following segment, letting us hear the elastic kind of sound (like rubber bands) of one of those boxes with a handle you press down so TNT goes off, and there's a big explosion that follows that in the cartoon but Kubrick cuts that out. I would, however, suggest the weight of this wheel is still there, just unseen, represented in the couple of wheel designs on the floor, in particular the wheel upon which Dick is slain, which also figures strongly in the scene of Danny's Big Wheel in the lobby resting upon it as Jack explores the indoor maze. When Wendy is sitting there with the Salinger book, its back cover perfectly mirroring the front cover, with the hidden reference to Mather's Comin' Through the Rye, she is reading a book on history repeating itself. 53 MS Wendy. (5:01) The camera has cut to Wendy while Danny/Tony said "Mrs. Can destiny be altered? Esau would lose not only his birthright to Jacob, but his father's blessing as well, through Jacob's guile and his deceit of masquerading as Esau in order to procure the blessing. The Awakening of Jacob My name is Jack Torrance. Just as the Bijou's audiences are influenced, both intentionally and by synchronicity (the train), experiencing certain aspects of the film in reality, what do these intersections mean to the audience of film in general (or any art), and in particular The Shining? a foreshadowing of Christ's glory, but also a promise of ours (Romans 8:16-17). Let's return to shot 21 and the red outlining the yellow in a frame on the left wall in Ullman's office. The couple, to enhance refreshment sales in their theater, tries this technique. The allusion is intended to intensify the feeling of isolation that the Torrances have once they are living at the hotel and cut off from the rest of the world. Crossfade to office begins at 5:10.) Good boy. Around the time he was making the film, Kubrick said, There is a wonderful suggestive timeliness [that the structure] of making a movie imposes on your life. The hotel is a special world for them, thus they have to explore it; in a sense, Jacks adventure is that of being the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. She has attempted to conceal a darker truth, in denial, wearing over it a second Wendy who encourages only looking at the bright side of things, and enjoins her son, Danny, to do the same in assuming a positive outlook on their coming isolation high in the mountains with an alcoholic father who is only five months sober and who has yet to earn back the trust of his family. The role then went to Scatman Crothers. -"The Shining" was one of the earliest films to use a then-new invention, the Steadicam. (8:30) Not things that anyone can notice, but things that people who shine can see. It was a typewriter that had built-in memory, so it could have turned out the pages without an actual person. Notice also that there are toys scattered about the floor including, to Jack's left, a small black teddy bear with its torso clothed in red - a foresight of Halloran's death. 11 - Morrisseau's "The Great Mother". 38 - Not in the movie. Lloyd strengthens Jacks will, therefore acting as an Enemy of Dannys. And he didn't and he hasn't had any alcohol in uhm five months. In it, Lokai, a man whose body is half black and half white, requests asylum on the Enterprise, claiming he's a political refugee. He revives, in it, the past. To protect Lloyd, who was 5 years old when he made the film, Kubrick told him that they were filming a drama. With the mention of emotional factors, Wendy has appeared to become nervous. Humbert's position on the stairs reminds of Jack's pursuit of Wendy up the great staircase in the Colorado Lounge in "The Shining", Humbert climbing these stairs in "Lolita" as he gunned down Quilty. In scenes where Bill and Jack are viewed from the rear, a complementary chord is struck, though Bill is dressed in a more tailored suit with a dark brown jacket and lighter brown pants. THE DOCTOR (laughs): I know. Foreshadowing is when the author gives a hint or warning to something that is going to happen. Ceramic tile disappeared completely about this time and where ceramic tile was once essential (such as with nicer bathtubs that had showers) the ceramic was replaced with fiberglass and plastics. The furnishings and the dining room and living room are spot on. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. But, it was inspired by Stephen Kings time at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado. My superimposition of the girls and the bloody elevator, showing spatial/design similarities. Based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining is about a family who takes residence in a secluded hotel for the winter during its off season. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters could not be mistaken. When King responded with the question of how hell fit into that picture, Kubrick simply responded, I dont believe in hell., The executive producer of The Shining was Kubricks brother-in-law, Jan Harlan. At the same time, the archetype of the Shadow can be found: it stands for the fury of the evil side, the danger which tacitly lies beneath the surface. 40 MCU of Jack. 44 MCU of Stuart. 25 MCU of Stuart. There is another photo of a silhouette in the office but we've yet to have it be introduced (I write of it in the Wednesday section). Jack gets the job. Whatever, we have in the bathroom's mirror the film's first instance of second sight, of oracle, access to knowledge not normally held, and Kubrick appropriately annotates it with music concerning an awakening from a dream. The "sha" itself is a breathy percussive voicing. Fig. Because post WWII it would be questionable to include it? I guess Danny started talking to Tony about the time we put him in nursery school. See? The next scene in The Shining has the doctor examining Danny's eyes with a bright light and saying, "Now, hold your eyes still so I can see." There seems a hint of it when Stuart is first talking about the tragedy during the winter in 1970, though I'm uncertain of that. Though many may have the feeling of Stuart and Bill being somehow complicit with evil forces of the hotel, and I think it is staged for us to feel that way, Stuart does warn Bill that it is harsh there in the winter, that it would be very harsh for a family, and that there had been disastrous consequences in the case of the Grady family. Moreover, we will discover later that the actual adventure for Jack is not that of being the caretaker of the ordinary Overlook, but rather the caretaker of the special Overlook, which does not entail running the boiler and the like so much as killing his family. This suggests that the Overlook and its ghosts are symbols of archetypical and sempiternal psychosocial issues. But then, following Halloranns murder, Danny runs and makes his father follow him in the maze. How flow of action about the set unconsciously constructs for the audience a plot of the unseen environment based on natural expectations. My greater concern (with a couple exceptions) is keeping an eye on what Kubrick's choices of music bring to the film in the stories suggested by their titles, and the same too with certain important symbols in the film, the stories often associated with them that are transported into the film by virtue of the use of the symbol and the mythology attached to it. 42 MCU of Stuart. About the cartoon STUART: Well, that's very good time, very good. Here is the quote: Doc, Jack Torrance said. Throughout these shots of Ullman, we don't see the bird statuette on the window sill behind him, which is there but concealed by his head. The far left pillar in the elevator hall fits neatly with the left pillar behind the girls. The film's major conflict revolves around Danny's struggle to cope with his father's gradual descent into madness and/or possession. The ponderous wood of the credenza that holds the TV was standard fare. And as far as my wife is concerned, I'm sure she'll be absolutely fascinated when I tell her about it. Fig. On the window sill of Danny's bedroom is a yellow rubber duck of the same kind we viewed in the bathroom, but the angle of the shot is such that though the bathroom is visible we're unable to see if the duck is still in that room (I would imagine it's not). There is constant conflict between Jack and Wendy even before he is possessed as he has anger issues and a tendency to be violent when he has drunk too much. We have no idea yet where this maze might be, but one assumes the inspiration for the model is somewhere on the grounds, even though our previous aerial view had shown no maze to the front or rear. This is from the Tuesday section. I think The Shining uses a similar kind of psychological misdirection to forestall the realization that the supernatural events are actually happening.. Shot 117. The film ends with text over black, The Overlook Hotel would survive this tragedy, as it had so many others. Because of the importance of the maze to the plot I'm going to lean toward thinking perhaps the book was chosen due the coincidence of the needle and the word clew, as a clew of thread was the ball used by Theseus to find his way out of the labyrinth, and is the origin for the word "clue". Or did Danny manage to stop the cycle of violence from repeating forever and ever? Another tale concerns a ventriloquist with a dummy that turns out to be independently alive, a plot that served as basis for the later Danny Kaye film, Knock on Wood. Wendy directs the doctor into the living room, past the painting of a horse running down a track toward an oncoming train. Kubrick's films are full of repetitive motifs. TONY: No. She is author (with Valerio Sbravatti) of Shining: King vs. Kubrick, Segnocinema 209 (2018), pp. as we switch over to Dick looking at Danny in the kitchen, right before Dick asks, "Do you know how I knew your name was Doc?" Fig. 27 MCU of Stuart. 40 - Danny questioned by the doctor. When her hair is pulled back we observe that she has not only bangs but that a portion of hair is cut about chin level. Other . This may be so. 32 MCU of Jack. But Tony's more independent than that. A baseball rests on the board between the books and the basket. Notice how the slim art on the left wall in Boulder, and the wider art above the TV in Boulder, complement respectively the slim line of the left column in the Overlook, and the one directly behind Jack. The disconcerting music, its intermittent roars, continues. The exterior of the lodge is, however, the Timberline at Mt. One theory is that Kubrick helped to fake the moon landing and The Shining is his confession. She is also, through this crossfade, allied with the caretaker, Bill. As for Ahwahnee, it may possibly mean "place of the big mouth", which, no matter the original meaning, may remind of Danny's open mouth silent scream. The Shiningby Stephen King was his third novel and is still regarded as one of his best. Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Only toward the end, when Dick enters the hall previous his fatal confrontation with Jack, will the camera finally reveal briefly the area where the photo in question will be seen at film's end, and we'll observe that the photo in question isn't there. In the 119 version, the alcoholism problem is absent: the liquor that Jack asks Lloyd for and then drinks seems to be desired only in order to dampen his anger, with no other implications. Peter Sellers tells the new owners that he has saved all these films from the old days and now the theater feels like old times. In the first act we have a situation of apparent balance for Jack and his family. It happens at 1:38:56 when Hal, over the radio, is saying it's a "bad day out there". Jack wants to bring his family to the hotel for a fresh new start but it is actually the end of their family and the end of Jack's life. But when one becomes fully aware it is an impossibility, the window becomes as forbiddingly out of place as the hazy glare it allows into the office, and the foliage outside the window seems almost to be as spies peering in. The silver service he was carrying isn't on the table between the man and the blond woman, nor do we see it with the two older women. A similar arrangement occurs here. Another Creative Commons image from Flickr, this one by Dave Ciskowsi, shows how similar in color scheme the film's Overlook was to a more vintage Ahwahnee, if the 2005 image shows color even remotely similar to earlier years. It's difficult for me to tell. The scene takes place after Jack dies in the snow. The midpoint i.e., the point of no return 9 occurs during the confrontation between Jack and Wendy in the Colorado Lounge, after she reads the typewritten text. This is a pretty austere scene, shot so that it seems very straightforward. Above her is a white bird with a black head ascending, and a raven. But back to The Smallest Show on Earth. -Jack tells Mr. Ullman that he expects Wendy will be entertained by the story of the hotel's bloody past, as she loves ghost stories and horror movies. I have no idea. The place was first called Luz, so its original name was supplanted. But what if we look at the name? Would you like some coffee? 25:25 - Wendy says, "See you later, hon" (sound occurs during this). She has been speaker in film studies conferences in Italian universities. As it happens, the ancient theater is now next a train line. If you are an Australian resident, any donations over $2 are tax deductible. (13:19) This same man will later be seen examining the maze. JACK: Well, that hmmm just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. Shot 116. That's where the story is. All three are incredibly sympathetic characters. WENDY: Oh, I'm sure you're right. (16:11) STUART: Uhm, physically, it's not a very demanding job. If it reoccurs, which I doubt The radiant heat, powered by a boiler, isn't of so much importance here, yet Kubrick has rigged it so the Overlook has both radiant heat and forced air heat. (5:45) How do you think they'll take to it? A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. In Stuart's interview, he has the uncomfortable business of relating the story of the murder, while in the interview with the doctor it is Wendy who will relate an uncomfortable story in response to the doctor's questions. (Standing.) Because they do. For example, Ullmans office has a window to the outside, but there are rooms surrounding the office, making that window impossible. Shot 142. Foreshadowing - a 'warning or indication of a future event' - is a useful device in storytelling. And, of course, we have later Jack crashing through the door of their suite's bathroom with his axe and announcing, "Here's Johnny!" Fig. At the end of the heros journey there is the Return with the Elixir. But there's nothing spooky about the lobby. The beiges and browns were standard fare. Referring back to The Wizard of Oz and its over the rainbow adventure, we have at the beginning here the potential of a dream story that makes use of elements of real life and can be accepted as having actually occurred at least for the journeying dreamer. Snoopy, though a dog, could understand and translate Woodstock's speech which Wikipedia informs was rendered in the cartoon as indecipherable "chicken scratch" and with symbols such as Z's and question marks etc.--just as various symbols communicate meaning in the film.But, of course, Snoopy also could not "talk" and his thoughts were communicated via thought balloons and pantomime. WENDY: What was the matter with him? Ullman visits Wendy in the hospital. But it was during Danny's speaking with Tony that he blacked out. Firmly situated in the working class, Jack begins the film unemployed, and we meet him at a job interview.